ENGLAND'S REBELLIOUS CONVICTS.
AN UNDESIRABLE CITIZEN.
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NOTICED recently a Billy letter from some man who thinks
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his friends are filled with green and yellow fires or envy De
cause ho has purchased un automobile. The friends in the
case need defence. Human nature is not a very mean thins
after all, and while some people may be jealous of the
prosperity of their friends there are many who rejoice in
the good luck which enables other people to purchase desir
able worldly possessions.
I will warrant that many of this r.iotorman's acquaint
ances would have evinced no spite had his choice fallen on something less
offensive to the majority cf pedestrians than an automobile. Tor my part 1
rejoice in the good luck which presents to my friends can "lasts, country hous
es and nil ether good things that tend toward their own comfort and, also
toward, the general beauty and grace of living. Automobiles do not do this.
They" are public abominations.
They menace life; they offend the eye and revolt the senses. I have no
doubt that many of this man's friends have had their agurestdve distaste
rathcj than their envy aroused by the motor ho has purchased. Everything
connected with a motor is hideous and the whole badness smells bad, and
every, additional motor car in New York is an addition to the city's ugliness
andb'ad air.
What wonder, therefeve, that on purchasing cue a man gets many un
pleasant frank opinions from his friends? I have, for instance, no objection
to thj purchase by any friend of an amiable littl-j lap dog, but if he brought
an evil visaged, ill-smelling and dangerous wolf through the streets I should
End some cause for criticism. The automobile is on the same plane as the
wolf.
The person who has a pet wolf may like him immensely, but lie can't ex
pect oyer people to feel the same way about it.
Te motor ca.r, to any mind with peace and poetry in it, is the most hor
rible? invention of modern times. Its effect on the human race is horrible.
TheT people who ride in motors are increasing daily in ugliness The faces of
the jtvoruen are getting an unspeakable metallic hardness- the sport is brutal
izing, drying and scarring the faces of men.
The pedestrians suffer, too. The constant outwatch to save life and limb
on tKe streets of New York does not tend soften and beautify the faces of
men. and women. In a few years, when the world is fuller still of automobiles,
the race will be still more horrible. Humanity will become a set of living,
glassy-eyed mummies, gasping out of life into doath, having bodies of bone
and parchment skin that will have no need of a burial, but can be put in nice
littleiEsyptian cases at once and classified by museums as "the human relics
of the hideous automobile a;je."
Mot Affect Railroad Rates
Ey Francis Lyn.de Stetson, Counsel of the
j tsKf. tlfj Southern Railway.
O far as relates to the rates of railroads in competition
and under state regulation, there is no possibility of harm
from overcapitalisation. In every other particular indicated
by the President any evil from overcapitlization would exist
and operate in respect of stock corporations generally,
whether organized as railroads or for industrial purposes.
So far as concerns the issue of bonds, promising to pay sums
exceeding the original consideration of the bonds, it is to
to be observed that in the case of corporations, 311st as in
the case of individuals, this is a matter of financial credit. The corporation
or the individual in good credit can borrow at a low rate and without discount;
while to induce loans, those in poor credit must make concessions inversely
large. Under such conditions, excessive bonded indebtedness does not consti
tute overcapitalization; and if it be an evil, it is an evil expressly permitted
by law. That it is an evil when incurred for any purpose not strictly within
the lawful purposes of the corporation, or for an amount impairing the ability
of the corporation, to carry on its legitimate business, I fully recognize.
Reasonable safeguards should be provided against such evil, and should be
accepted cheerfully by corporate managers. In this direction the provisions
of- the so-called public utilities bill, requiring a commission's prior approval
of all issues of railroad bonds, as well a3 of issues of railroad stocks, are emi
nently proper.
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Jldvice for Sojourners by the Sad Sea Waves
from One Who IQnows.
Cy George Fentrick.
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O those sojourning at the seaside I would like to offer a lit
tle recipe for the improvement of their general health. In
stead of promenading along the shore in the hot sun let
them take to the water, and immediately on coming out got
through the following sand formula:
rill your hair with sand and rub the ccalp thoroughly,
apply more water and sand and repeat several times; this
wiil remove all dandruff. Rub yor.r face with sand until all
skin impurities are removed. Put sand in your mouth and
rir.se it; this will improve yor.r speech. Rub your teeth with sand, taking
care not to scrape off the enamel. Rub your gums in order to harden them.
Gargle the salt water. Rub sand in your nostrils in order to harden the skin
and the mucous membrane; this will make you le?3 susceptible to colds in the
head, besides being conducive to cleanliness. Rub your feet with sand until
the callous skin is removed. Rub t and between your toes and harden the
skin, thereby making the feet less susceptible to perspiration, besides being
conducive to cleanliness. In fact, rub sand all over your body, it will quicken
the nerves and stimulate the circulation of the blood.
Nature has provided the clean, white sand close to the sea where it can
be used to incalculable advantage' without money and without price
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Ev President Chase, of Eates College. e
:! F individuals and the race are to progress, it must be in re
V V r.nircfi tn Ihn'-ii e.amn nersnnal Inemt.ivea 1 hat. h:ivf lifted
T W men above brutes and produced those splendid differentia-
Ul uiati. t btijii, Hint stulu;i Lijau tilt; i-ii f-J1-'.Jr " " UKjyji
of mankind. Human weal absolutely requires that the kind
and amount of the service that each of lis shall undertake,
and the portion of cur gains and rewards that we shall de
vote to the welfare of others, be left largely to our own
judgment and conscience. And could any attempt to have
Jt otherwise be permanently successful, the star of human destiny would
speedily set in darkness. Happily the primitive instinct of self-preservation
and recognition will not permit bueh a result. As a consequence, no one of
us can escape, through the virtue of any social or industrial mechanism, the
rc-sponsibility of deciding how and what we will contribute to the common
good. It is, indeed, a dangerous responsibility, fraught with awful consequence;-
to ourselves and to others. But confront us it must and wilj; and
h best hlne we can lo Is to convert responsibility into opportunity.
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Prisoners Exercising In the Yard at Wormwood Bcrubbs, One of Great
Britain's Leading Prisons, and Recently Disturbed
by Mutinous Outbreaks.
The Sphere.
Unique Foot Bath.
The desirability of prolonged foot
baths is well recognized, as is also
the inconvenience incident to the
present methods of taking these
baths in an open vessel of some de
scription. The inconveniences in
clude seclusion of the person, re
plenishing the bath and exposure of
the moist skin to the air. To obviate
these inconveniences an Ohio man
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has invented a specially designed
slipper for the purpose of soaking
the feet. This slipper can be readily
put on or taken off, and can be worn
about the house. Air is excluded from
the feet, the natural warmth of the
feet keeping the. bath itself warm.
The slipper is made of rubber, with
a comparatively heavy sole, the body
or upper being light and elastic. The
sole and upper are considerably
larger than the foot, so as to provide
room for the bath. The ankle fits
closely. Above the ankle are hand
pieces, to assist in putting on or tak
ing off the slipper. By placing a
small quantity of the desired bath in
the slipper the wearer can prolong
the bath indefinitely without seclu
sion, replenishing or exposure to cold
air. Any desired liquid bath, such
as plain or salt water or any medical
compound may be used. Washing
ton Star.
He Needs a Home.
A commuter, who rides two hours
each morning to reach his work and
two hours more at night to get home,
was asked: "Why do you do it? Why
not live in town?"
"Because I am one of those men,"
he answered, "who cannot be happy
unless he has one spot of land on
God's green earth upon which ho can
stand and call it his own. Because
I would suffocate to live all my life
under a roof belonging to some one
else. Because I want my children
to grow up with the instinct of home,
and not as mere dwellers in the tents
of the migrating races. These are
the reasons why I get up at daybreak
and, at this time of year, eat my din
ner by the gaslight." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Mexican Cargador.
Just as one finds the rickshaw
everywhere in India bo one finds tho
cargador in Mexico. He is a beast
of burden. In general he is a com
paratively small man, with broad
shoulders and stout arms and legs.
To look at him one would not think
he would be able to carry heavy bur
dens. But the weight he can carry
is surprising. You have a trunk
you can scarcely move, for instance.
You send for cargador. He get3 it
upon his back, high up on the shoul
ders, and he marches off with it as
easily as though it were a plaything.
A life dedicated to carrying heavy
burdens has niatia this work easy for
him. A shghtly built Mexican will
carry over 500 pounds on his shoul
ders for short distances.
Until lately almost everything in
Mexico City and everywhere else
throughout the republic was carried
upon the backs of cargardors. If
you wanted to move your household
furniture you hired a certain num
ber of cargadors. For house mov
ing they generally work in pairs,
each pair having" hand truck, which
they pick up and carry, when it is
loaded, for it has no wheels. In
Mexico City there are still hundreds
of these hand trucks; though one
may now find plenty of carts, wagons
and heavy moving trucks. There
are also regular transfer companies.
But all of these are of recent impor
tation. Mexican Herald.
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"POCAHONTAS."
Mr. Partridge's Beautiful Statue at
the Jamestown Exposition.
Steel box cars have been built re
cently which will weigh about 3000
pounds loss than wooden cars of the
same size and capacity.
THOUGHTFUL.
Lady (returning from the country) "Have you noticed, Liese, that
my husband became lonesome during my absence?"
Maid "I did not notice it at first but he seemed quits downhearted
the last day." Fliegenden Blaetter.
Uncle Sain "Hey! if you want to put out that fire quit blowing it."
Timely Cartoon, from Judge.
FUTURL WARS MAY BEL FOUGHT IN AIR
To
Settled With Minimum Loss of Life,
Declares Major Squires.
New York City. Brigadier-General James Allen, head of the Signal
Corps of the United States Army; Major George O. Squiers, of the Signal
Corps, and Admiral C. M. Chester, of the navy, were speakers before the In
ternational Aeronautical Congress in the house of the Automobile. Club ot
America. The value of the airship in army and navy and the type3 beai
suited for the different branches of tlte service were set forward by tha
speakers, who are working on the problem on behalf of the American Gov
ernment. General Allen said that the corps was building in Omaha a large aero
drome, 200 feet long, 100 feet wide and eighty feet high, where the 300
Signal Corps men stationed in the region will be trained. Later, he said,
an aerodrome would probably be erected on the Atlantic coast and one on
the Pacific coast. "We are more interested in the dirigible balloon than in
the aeroplane," he said, "and shall make our ga3 by the electric process."
The liquid air process has been tried, he said, but was not successful.
General Allen said that he understood that-Secretary Taft would ask Con
gress for $200,000 for the prosecution of the work. A resolution was.
adopted asking President Roosevelt to intercede with Congress in bejialf
of the new branch of military activity.
"The practical dirigible balloon ig here now," Major Squiers said.
"The last great war was conducted strictly in line with the textbooks, ac
companied at times with unlimited slaughter. The great object' of war is.
to bring about a decisive result with a minimum destruction of human life.
If we could utilize scientific principles to bring about this result without
killing any one it would be the ideal. The cavalry i3 designed to scout and
develop Information for use in the handling and operation of the army,
which it serves. Aerial navigation furnishes U3 with an additional weapon
for obtaining information and for using the information thus obtained. It
will enable the maneuvring of armies by strategic marches and surprises,
to bring about decisivo results with minimum destruction of life."
Admiral Chester, speaking for tho naval side of the work, said that it
had recently come to light that balloons were used by the navies as well as
by the armies involved in tho late Russo-Japanese War. "Sufficient is
learned from actual practice to substantiato the theory that the airship is
likely to become the long sought antidote against attacks from submarines,"
he said. "The elevation enables the observer to discover the movements
of submarines under tho water, and floating mines and stationary mines
may be detected.
"The dirigible balloon has been adopted by armies, but it i3 not profit
able for general use on shipboard. Naval men should give their attention
to the development of the aeroplane. It is peculiarly a naval weapon be
cause of Its compactness; the fact that on shipboard it would always bo
near a machine shop a necessary factor in operating so delicate a piece of
machinery it3 adaptability for scouting purposes and the fact that it
w-ould have the power at hand for initial movement. An inclined plane
which Is commonly used for acquiring movement may be readily constructed
on shipboard, but when the ship's own velocity is insufficient, turning her
into the wind would give her own speed combined with that of the wind."
In his address a3 president of tho Congress Willis L. Mocre reviewed
the history of the development o aerial navigation and concluded that it
was evident that the first application of the work would be in the art of
war. "Commercially very little is to be expected from either balloons oi
flying machines," he said. "Upon the whole, now that success ha.3 come,
we see that the conquest of the air has more limited practical use3 than
was imagined when it was not known how the process was to be a "aieved,
but it may develop new uses of its own and prove an important benefit to
mankind."
WOMAN ACCUSES TOM LAWSON, OF BOSTON
Finds Him in Hotel and Says He Caused Her Loss of $42,000
by His Misleading Stock Tips.
had a table next to the one I usually
occupy. I don't know whether the
empty high ball glasses on their table
had anything to do with the attack.
I don't know whether they had been
laying in wait for me all day or a
week of days. Wouldn't know the
lady again if I saw her.
"I simply rose from the table, said
to the lady, 'If you have lost as
much as ?42,O0C, you must have been
gambling,' and thanking her for her
attention sat down."
Boston. A story was in circulation
to tho effect that Thomas W. Lawson
had been attacked in Young's Hotel
by a woman. Mr. Lawson issued a
statement in which he said:
"The attack consists solely of the
hysterical woman, if she was hyster
ical, coming to my table in Young's
dining room and conveying to me the
alleged information that I had been
the cause of her losing $12,000. I
had never seen the woman before, but
I noticed that sha and two others
HOLIDAY TURKEYS TWENTY-SEVEN GENTS A POUND
Probably Will Eg Higher, as
is Coming Fr;
New York City. There i3 great '
uncertainty about the prices consum
ers will have to pay for their Thanks
giving turkeys. While there is a
large supply of Western birds, raisers
say pricqs will be higher tha:i hisc
year. An important factor will be
the weather. If the present big-i
temperature continues fcr a fortnight
prices will be no higher than thry
were a year a','0, but a cold snap
would raean that from two to tiirca
ccnt3 a pound would bs added.
Turkeys r.ra selling wholesale nt
the same figures as during the week
preceding last Thanksgiving Day,
eighteen ctrutc. v.iiieli is the sam"5
Greater Part cf tho Supply
5m the West.
price they were in 10 04 and two cents
less than they were in 1005. In 1903
they were twenty and one-half cents,
and seventeen cents in 1902.
The cheapest turkeys now in the
market are twelve cents wholesale,
and there is little demand for them,
while there is only a fair demand for
the best stock-, the sales made being
above seventeen cent3. There are
few shipments comiug from near
home, mor,t of the supplier coming
from the West.
Retail 'shops are selling the beet
turkeys for twenty-seven cents, but
intimate that the price will ba higher
before many weeks roll around.
Uncle Sam Loses $30,000
by a Fire in Washington.
Washington, D. C. The seed" di
vision building cf the Department of
Agriculture, located on C street,
Southwest, wa3 partially destroyed
by fire early in the morning a few
days ago.
The origin of the fire is unknown,
but it is supposed to have been spon
taneous combustion. The loss on
the building will be $30,000. Rome
valuable seeds were destroyed that it
will be difScult to rcrlaco.
Deal in Kentucky Foi 1G,00,000
Pounds of Bnrley Tobacco,
At Henderson, Ky., by a deal just
completed, the Imperial Tobacco
Company bought the entire 1907 to
bacco crop pledged to the American
Society of Equity in Henderson,
Union, Webster, Hopkins and Crit
tenden Counties. The deal involves
16,000,000 pounds of tobacco and
will bring 5500,000 la English money
to the farmers of that section. The
price is the highest ever paid, with
the exception of the war price.
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